Bella Chagall

Burning Lights

A Unique Double Portrait of Russia

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This charming memoir by Bella Chagall recalls her childhood in Vitebsk, the Russian-Jewish market town where she and her husband, Marc Chagall, grew up. Her warm reminiscences of Jewish family life in pre-Revolutionary Russia are illustrated with thirty-six pen-and-ink drawings by Marc Chagall. Bella Chagall, a gifted author and actress, was the youngest of seven children born to a well-to-do Hasidic family. While living in France in the 1930s, the Chagalls conceived the idea of commemorating their native town with a book. The title they chose was Burning Lights, an allusion to the festive candles that in their childhood had lit up the holida… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8052-0863-4
EAN: 9780805208634
Produktnummer: 9107667
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
Seitenangabe: 272 S.

Über den Autor

BELLA ROSENFELD CHAGALL (November 1985 – September 1944) was a Jewish Belarusian writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. Chagall’s works include The Burning Lights and First Encounter.